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Cabins, Kafka, and KFC!
Cabin fever. When writers paint. Kafkaesque! Israel vs. Cat Lady over Kafka papers. RIP Brain, Child. Play your (Facebook) cards right and you could be the proud owner of Colonel Sanders’s...
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Chicken Poetry, and Other News
Sheryl Sandberg: “I probably shouldn’t admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.” Perhaps this explains why January bookstore sales were up 5.5 percent...
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Miss Subways Reunite, and Other News
A Miss Subways ad from 1941. From 1941 to 1976, a group called the New York Subways Advertising Company held regular contests to find Miss Subways, a woman who would appear in glamour shots on posters...
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The French Fries Had a Plan
Is Kanye’s McDonald’s poem a parable of class struggle? Avoid temptation. When I wrote in May about the seriocomic implications of a Burger King Spa opening in Helsinki, I thought I’d pegged the most...
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Live Your Best Pod Life, and Other News
Photo: scarletgreen Today in extravagant acts of self-protection: Julian Barnes wasn’t a fan of his first novel, 1980’s Metroland. So he wasn’t surprised when it got a savage notice in an organ called...
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Seduced Yet Again by Colonel Sanders, and Other News
From the cover of Tender Wings of Desire. You know that Borges story, “The Library of Babel,” where he imagines a world containing all possible books? Perforce, one such book would have to be a...
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